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THE Interception of Communications Act, signed into law by President Robert Mugabe last week, is unconstitutional and can be successfully challenged in the courts, legal experts said yesterday. The government will find it difficult to adequately monitor communications, particularly e-mails and other internet communications, they said. The law authorises the government to set up an interception centre to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, open mail, and intercept e-mails and faxes. But legal experts told The Standard yesterday the law was an unwarranted infringement on people's rights. David Coltart, secretary for legal affairs in the pro-Senate faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said the law was unconstitutional and will have serious repercussions on people's rights and freedom of expression. "There is no independent review of any interception of a person's communication," said Coltart. "It (the law) is an unjustifiable invasion of a pers...

Zimbabwean Internet service providers (ISPs) are struggling to install costly equipment to monitor the flow of information in the southern African country, according to online activist Web site Kubatana. President Robert Mugabe formally signed the Interception of Communications Act earlier this month. It enables the government to intercept phone calls, e-mails and faxes with the intention of protecting national security. The law stipulates ISPs are under mandatory obligation to pay for and install the monitoring equipment. “The law now stipulates that licensed Internet access providers and their ISPs must install the lawful interception equipment at their own cost,” says Shadreck Nkala, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Internet Service Provider Association (ZISPA). The Act further states an ISP that fails to provide assistance in terms of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years. Nkala says there is a need for di...

“Thou shalt name this week ‘Gain’”, the Merchant spoke out across the room, as his investor walked in. “Why, if I may ask?” responded the farmer, walking towards the merchant, with a bag of gold in his hands. “For thus shall you be, get, and give.” “Speak on”, exclaimed the excited farmer as he sat to hear the merchant’s report about his investments. The merchant pulled out a scroll from his desk and begun to narrate his dealings with the farmer’s gold over the past week, how they grew, and gave a insight of the coming week, as it was the week of celebrations in the city, where bringing more business to the farmer and other investors with the merchant. “You are gain, because your investment speaks continuously as it instructs, communes, and co-operates with goods and services to which it multiplies. Your voice is heard and that which has been touched takes heed of the instruction. Growth begins, even from small dealings, and resulting in multitudes of trade. You speak through your gol...

Lack of imagination has caused the loss, failure, and following of many businesses, communities, nations, and even individuals. Imagination is the beginning of all profit, as there can never be profit without the translation of thought, stemming from imagination. It is the process in which the mind and the heart are in unison, creating a desired haven for the person in question. Imagination is the source of all revolutionary change in the world, as innovators created and implemented there thoughts. Imagination is the first, if not only, place, that you are crowned king without having royal blood or fighting for. Your imagination is your Kingdom. The Zulu Kingdom was forged in the mind of a thirteen year old boy, a bustard, and reject called Chaka Zulu. The Kingdom of Israel was conceived through the imagination of a shepherd called David, yet still stands in the hearts of more than two billion people on earth. The journey to greatness begins with imagination. As you begin to imagine, y...

Wealth comes, and never goes, for wealth is more than just the riches brought by opportunity and the wind. Wealth is the time you put into work and business as you strive to multiply relationships and gold. You create new relationship as your gold labours for you, seizing the opportunities that are brought by the wind, and as you heed the voice of the Opportunist. Your gold accumulates over time, causing increase to your possessions, creating even more relationships in the form of laborers, stewards, enterprises, and friends. It is true, “money answers all things”. This happens as your wealth begins to solve problems around you – in your house, in your city, within your boundaries. Your gold extends your boundaries, as you stretch and move to the right and to the left. In each direction, your wealth speaks resolution of ancient or recent problems that have been a menace to the people thereof. “The rich man’s wealth is his city”, for it keeps him secure and is a foundation for the nat...

A man with a kingdom has power. A man with a kingdom has glory. All men desire power and glory. The kingdom of man is about power and gory manifest through riches and possessions. The wealth of a kingdom is the usage and continual multiplication of a man’s riches and possessions. The wealth of a man is his kingdom. The riches of a man are the tools to build that kingdom. Therefore, if you are to build anything, then build a kingdom. Building a kingdom begins with the desire to be great and having a domain – place of glory, and power. The desire to dominate is in every man. The power to dominate is, however, only in those that complete the construction of their kingdoms. The construction of your kingdom begins with the choice you make each day about the usage of your earnings. There are those that consume their earnings, and yet a few that make their earnings work for them, not matter how little they may be. Your kingdom will grow as you continuously and faithfully invest your money in ...

Dream today, see it happen tomorrow. To every man is appointed a portion of the day to lay and give way to an uncontrollable series of events, packaged in what has been termed by the Maker, and adopted by all, called DREAMING. Dreaming is that series of events where one becomes what his subconscious mind had been recording each minute of the day. Dreaming is also that moment when an individual envisions himself having attained certain things or position in his life. When he has reached a haven, where he comfortably dwells in that moment, gazing a satisfying environment, one filled with gladness and peace. This dreaming, none can steal from the mind of man. Dreaming is what everyone can do. There are those who have invested their time to dream of things and places that have never been heard of before, “what eye has not seen, nor what ear has heard, even what the heart of man has never conceived”. Having done so, they work at their dreams, converting them into a reality. These dreams ha...

A Kingdom that can never be moved can be likened unto a mountain overseeing a lake. The rains, snow, and turmoil, can pound it time and again, yet it remains standing strong. It is a place that can never be shaken. A place; establish and rooted within the foundations of the deep. The foundations of such a Kingdom were engrafted in the core of the earth, making it a sure residence above the earth. The earth has shaped many landscapes and moved mountains from place to place. The earth has formed seas, rivers, and lakes, even springs. The earth, with the assistance of the sun and moon, has created deserts, forests, jungles, and snow. Winds rage to and fro on the earth, bringing change as they work hand in hand to shape the future. The earth is ever changing. Yet there is a place that endures all. There is a place that cannot be removed, even by the harshest of weather. Winds can blow, seas can rage, and the earth can shake, yet there is a place that can never be removed. This place is w...

Lo, there is a day beyond tomorrow that the eye envisions. Beyond tomorrow is a time of prosperity, a time of peace, a tranquil time, filled with goodness, and much gain. Yesterday will surely pass away, just as today will fade. Beyond tomorrow is a place where everyone desires to see. It is a place whose destination mankind finds hope in. it is a place that man labours tirelessly to arrive, moving through harsh times, turbulence, discomfort, lack, and unrest, just to see what is beyond tomorrow. It is a place where hope finds a meaning. Man goes through the day, week, month and year as though bound by hope of seeing what is beyond tomorrow. Nothing can replace that hope of seeing beyond tomorrow. It is man’s destined residence. Man is bound by destiny. Man’s destiny is beyond tomorrow. Beyond tomorrow reside all things envisioned in man’s perception, hope unfeigned; a place like no other. Beyond tomorrow, the eye has not seen. Beyond tomorrow, the ear has not heard. Beyond tomorrow, t...